BA Direct Entry Pilot.

[Boebus720]

Originally Posted by CXKA

Anyone used PMflight before going in to the SIM assessment?

Any feedback appreciated as I have the SIM in August, thanks.

When is your assessment, mine is in August as well. Do you know if the 757 has definitely been retired as a sim option?

[Dupre]

Boebus, Pistolpete, LondonLenny,

It seems that as you have just made your first posts, you will not be able to receive PMs yet.

However I am interested to ask how you managed to book sim dates in August? I have been checking at least daily for nearly 4 months and have not seen a single date available on the system... am I doing something wrong or do they just get snapped up that fast?

Ta!

[student88]

FYI

I'm an FO A320 LHR and I've flown no more than 750 hrs in the last 365 days.

[A340Yumyum]

'Do you know if the 757 has definitely been retired as a sim option?'

I think you realllllly need to do some homework, if you are asking this question.

[VJW]

To be fair though- the sim notes they provide for day 3 includes the 757 which is why he's probably asking..

[Phantom4]

Many military colleagues have used PM Flight with positive results and not just BA assessment.

[A340Yumyum]

To be fair though- the sim notes they provide for day 3 includes the 757 which is why he's probably asking..

Nope, to be fair, he should read through this thread........homework.....

[Alanrobins01]

@A340Yumyum, he does ask a perfectly reasonable question and if you don't want to answer it, don't waste your time replying back to him, you only put off our fellow colleagues within the industry from asking for advise. The answer to that question is not definitively answered within this forum. However, even if it was, I don't see that reading through 157 pages of Pprune is doing your homework and taking 'goodness knows who wrote that article' as gospel.

[tommytailwind]

757 sim has definitely gone and its space is now occupied by a newly built 787 sim. Assessment is only on the 747 now.

[Twiglet1]

757 is dstill in use, at Fed Ex

[Pistolpete47]

Originally Posted by Dupre

Boebus, Pistolpete, LondonLenny,

It seems that as you have just made your first posts, you will not be able to receive PMs yet.

However I am interested to ask how you managed to book sim dates in August? I have been checking at least daily for nearly 4 months and have not seen a single date available on the system... am I doing something wrong or do they just get snapped up that fast?

Ta!

Hey Dupre, sorry about the late reply. Got sent the Sim dates in an email direct from recruitment. Replied straight away and got a date. Didn't log in to the system at all.

Reckon you should email them to check in and let them know you are still keen.

[binsleepen]

MSN001

Very unlikely until all the bid results have been analysed and fleet plans and course requirements for next year firmed up. So end of this year at the earliest. I suspect that there will be quite a few SH FO's with successful LH bids this year. They should get courses before any LH DEPs are recruited.

Regards

[RexBanner]

And rightly so!

[AFrotary]

I heard that BA has a direct entry path for UK military aviators.
Does anyone know if there is also a possibility for foreign military aviators to join BA without heavy fixed wing experience?

[Icanseeclearly]

AFrotary

Don't think so the website says

"If you are a service pilot in the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Royal Marines or Army Air Corps you can apply via the Managed Path"

Seems pretty specific but probably worth a try

[deeceethree]

Does anyone know if there is also a possibility for foreign military aviators to join BA without heavy fixed wing experience?

I am pretty certain that any such application would be discarded, without a further glance. BA's stated criteria for DEP, with regard to previous experience, are pretty specific. Ignoring them is a sure way to getting your application binned.

[MackTucker]

Originally Posted by deeceethree

I am pretty certain that any such application would be discarded, without a further glance. BA's stated criteria for DEP, with regard to previous experience, are pretty specific. Ignoring them is a sure way to getting your application binned.

You my friend are 100% incorrect.

[wiggy]

I heard that BA has a direct entry path for UK military aviators.
Does anyone know if there is also a possibility for foreign military aviators to join BA without heavy fixed wing experience....

Hopefully somone who has benefitted for "Managed Path" will have chapter and verse but as I recall it Managed Path was the result of some discussion between some UK airlines and the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), and certainly initially the MOD/UK individual services facilitated and administered the scheme internally. See the bottom of this page:

RAF Learning Forces - Flying Training

......An MOD scheme has been established with airline and aviation related companies. It provides targeted assistance in entering the civil sector, which eases the transition process and encourages a longer Service flying career for RAF pilots. All service pilots, of 32 years of age or above, who are serving on a Permanent Commission (or equivalent), are eligible to register with the scheme. Military intranet users should access GAI 1028 ......

[mr ripley]

Quite correct. It is a retention scheme to allow British Military pilots to take the initial parts of selection and then just the simulator in the final months before leaving. The idea is to stop pilots leaving the military early in fear of missing out on selection.

[AFrotary]

Thanks for the info!

Sounds like a good deal for UK service men, they can count themselfs lucky.
In most places in Europe ex-mil is treated the same as just out of flightschool newbies.